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The Art of Finding Coarse Gold Part IV—Recovery of Coarse Gold From Alluvial Placers
March 2005 by Chris Ralph
This last installment in the series will look at methods for finding and recovering coarse gold from alluvial (river and stream) placer environments. Unlike the residual and eluvial placers that we have considered previously, the force of flowing...
Heavy Glacial Rocks and Gold in the Midwest
Over the years, I've noticed a pattern in the type of rocks associated with the best gold deposits in Midwestern glacial gravel.
Critical Metals: Lithium
Prospecting for lithium deposits can take a number of different directions, because this metal can be extracted from a variety of geologically differnet sources.
The Bawl Mill
• The Canadian exchange rate defense
• Excess vehicles are "driving" taxpayers crazy
• Dead snake delays construction
Cal-Gold Closes Shop After 30 Years
“It is with great sadness that after more than 30 years in business in Pasedena, Cal-Gold will close its doors,”
Melman on Gold & Silver
…Washington and America have never seen a flow of actions by a new President to match what Trump has done during his first three weeks, but those actions suggest two interpretations.
Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
Gold Prospecting for Better or Worse: Tangling With A Desert Monster
It all occurred when Gus and I returned to a remote placer gold area where we had previously found really good gold. The problem was that it would take about an hour to walk through the desert to get to it.
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The Bawl Mill
• $100 Million Lost on Faulty ESA Listing
• Geologists Locate Giant Gemstones
• Miner Wins Important Victory Against Forest Service
• Philippines Asks Foreigners to Invest in Mining
• Healthy Interest at Recent Vancouver Conferences
• Idaho Silver Miners Come to Aid of Tsunami Victims
• Picks & Pans: In Search of a Vein: Looking for Hardrock in the Talkeetna Mountains
• Researchers Trace History of Hope Diamond
• The "Rip-Roaring" Flood That Washed Out Mazuma, Nevada
• Looking Back
• Resolution Copper Mine, Arizona
• Company Notes
• China Ups Investment in Foreign Minerals
• Melman on Gold & Silver
• Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
